Ancestors of Christopher John Augustine Morry




Living 
      Sex: M
Parents 
         Father: Living
         Mother:
Living 
      Sex: F
Parents 
         Father: Living
         Mother: Living
Spouses and Children 
1. Living
       Children:
                1. Living
                2. Living
Living 
      Sex: M
Parents 
         Father: Francis Joseph McNamara 344
         Mother: Isabel Kennedy 344
Living 
      Sex: M
Parents 
         Father: John Leonard McNamara 344
         Mother: Marie Clare Malony 344
Sister Victoria Mary McNamara 
      Sex: F
AKA: Molly McNamara 5964, Sister Mary Ursula McNamara
Individual Information 
     Birth Date: 9 Jul 1897 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada 344
    Christening: 
          Death: 13 Aug 1993 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ( at age 96) 344
         Burial: After 13 Aug 1993 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada 344
 Cause of Death: 

Events

•  Departure: To New York for specialisation in his profession, 4 Mar 1908, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. 

•  Arrival: From St. John's on board S.S. SILVIA, 10 Mar 1908, New York, New York, New York, United States of America. 

•  Ordination: RC Nun, Mercy Convent, 24 Sep 1918, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. 

•  Living: 7 May 1963.
Parents 
         Father: Hon. Francis Michael McNamara 5,344,1894
         Mother: Victoria Eugenia Bearns 344
        Marriage Did Not Marry
Notes
General:
From Marie Skiffington's Family Tree:

Daughter Victoria Mary McNamara born 9 Jul 1897 St. John's lived on Monkstown Rd. Victoria's religious name was "Sister Mary Ursula". She entered convent 24 Sep 1918. Her 1st profession was 16 Jul 1921 and went on Foundation to McAuley Convent, St John's 3 Jun 1991. She died 13 Aug 1993 (96 years old). Buried at Belvedere Cemetery.

110815:
An Ancestry hint revealed the particulars of Alfred McNamara's travel to the US to obtain the qualifications mentioned in his obituary -- engraving and optometry. He sailed from St. John's to New York on board the S.S. SILVIA on March 4, 1908. In the ship's manifest it notes as his next of kin, Mrs. A. McNamara of 17 Garrison Hill, St. John's. But oddly it also shows that he was accompanied by Molly McNamara whose next of kin is listed as Mr. Francis McNamara of 15 Garrison Hill, St. John's. This would have been a niece, but why she was travelling with him is unclear as she was only 8 years old. Also, I have no record of a daughter of Francis McNamara born in 1900. The closest would be Victoria Mary McNamara (later Sister Mary Ursula) who was born in 1897. It seems unlikely that there would have been a three year discrepancy on her age on a ship's manifest but that appears to have been the case. I think that she may have been in ill health and travelled with her uncle for medical attention in the US. This is pure speculation but I cannot put together any better explanation for these limited facts.

William McNamara 
      Sex: M
Individual Information 
     Birth Date: 30 May 1803 344
    Christening: 
          Death: 23 Feb 1822 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ( at age 18) 6602
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death:
Parents 
         Father: Augustine McNamara 344
         Mother: Mary Forestal 344
Living 
      Sex: F
Spouses and Children 
1. Living
Living 
      Sex: M
Parents 
         Father: Hon. Alexander James Whiteford McNeily M.H.A. 6439
         Mother: Living
Hon. Alexander James Whiteford McNeily M.H.A. 
      Sex: M
AKA: J. W. McNeily
Individual Information 
     Birth Date: 3 Aug 1845 - Armagh, Northern Ireland 6439
    Christening: 
          Death: 7 Oct 1911 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ( at age 66) 6439
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death: 

Events

•  Emigration: Widowed mother and two sons, Isaac Robert and Alexander James Whiteford, 1849, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.  (Witness) 

•  Membership: Inducted as a member of the St. John's Lodge, Freemasons, 5 Apr 1867, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. 

•  Occupation: Barrister at law, 259 Duckworth St., 1871, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. 

•  Residence: "Whiteford", Water St., 1871, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. 

•  Property: Sale of Duder Estate on Circular Rd., 4 Jan 1886, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.  (Trustee) 

•  Occupation: Lawyer and Politician, Bef 7 Oct 1911, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
Parents 
         Father: Isaac McNeily
         Mother: Olivia Whiteford 6439
Spouses and Children 
1. Living

Marriage Events

•  Minister/Priest: Rev. Thomas Harris, Wesleyan Church, 24 Jun 1878, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. 
       Children:
                1. Living
                2. Living
                3. Living
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061118 from the Dictionary of Canadian Biography online:

McNEILY, ALEXANDER JAMES WHITEFORD, lawyer and politician; b. 3 Aug. 1845 in Armagh (Northern Ireland), son of Isaac McNeily and Olivia Whiteford; m. 24 June 1878 Jessie Emma Sutcliff Rogerson in St John's, and they had three sons; d. there 7 Oct. 1911.

Alexander McNeily and his brother, Isaac Robert, arrived in Newfoundland with their widowed mother in 1849. She was the eldest daughter of Alexander Whiteford of Fair Head (Northern Ireland), who came the next year with his large, close-knit Ulster and Wesleyan Methodist family. McNeily was schooled at the General Protestant Academy and returned to Ireland to study at Queen's College, Belfast, and at Queen's University in Ireland. He was subsequently articled to Hugh William Hoyles*, was called to the bar in 1870 (qc 1880), and established a successful law practice with his brother. McNeily's marriage to the daughter of James Johnstone Rogerson*, Rogerson's marriage to McNeily's aunt, the poet Isabella Whiteford*, and the marriage alliances of other relations linked Alexander to an influential circle of merchants and professionals.

Militant Protestant loyalists, the McNeily brothers were active in Orange order affairs. Alexander was an officer and Isaac a member of the first St John's lodge, Alexander later being elected grand master of the society in Newfoundland. A taste of this ingredient of contemporary politics appears in one of his public addresses in 1870, which drew from a reader of the St John's Morning Chronicle a furious letter accusing him of having "indulged his feelings against Catholicity, outraging those of the Roman Catholics present by sneering allusions to their Pope, Priesthood and religion." In July of the same year the St John's Courier described McNeily as the apparent liaison between the Orange order and the supporters of confederation, who had been defeated in the election of 1869.

McNeily entered the political lists when he was elected to the House of Assembly as a Conservative for Bonavista in 1873 and 1874. In 1878 he was returned for Twillingate and Fogo, and he served as speaker of the assembly during the administration of William Vallance Whiteway*. He was defeated for the same district in 1882 as a member of the New party, led by Rogerson. In the spring of 1883 the Grand Lodge of the Orange order approved McNeily's motion for the formation of a political committee, and by the fall it had circulated resolutions to all lodges calling on Protestants to prepare to unite in case Protestantism should be threatened. McNeily was deeply involved in the political and legal manœuvring which took place in the aftermath of the Harbour Grace affray of December [see Whiteway].

After having joined Robert Thorburn*'s Reform party in 1885, McNeily was elected for Bay de Verde, and he played an important role as leader of the radical wing of the party. He also served as speaker and attorney general. In 1889 he was appointed chief clerk and registrar of the Supreme Court, but he soon resigned to resume his legal practice. There was one final incursion into public life: in 1908 and 1909 he ran unsuccessfully for the Liberal party of Sir Robert Bond* in Burgeo and LaPoile. His personal platform in both campaigns seems to have been much concerned with the issue of temperance.

McNeily's involvement in the temperance movement was shared by many of his nonconformist (and other) contemporaries: J. J. and Isabella Rogerson and Daniel Woodley Prowse, to name only his close relatives and friends. To it he added interests in game laws, the artificial propagation of game fishes, the establishment of the Game and Inland Fisheries Board, and the like. He himself was a lifelong and tireless angler, and he wrote vividly and memorably on this "contemplative man's Recreation." He was also a poet in a marked, if minor, register, and like his many Whiteford relatives was a passionate lover of song and music. Memoirs of the time recall the charm of intimate life in the Whiteford family home, Dunluce (which McNeily had inherited from his grandfather); not the least of them is Prowse's obituary of McNeily, which speaks of "our dear and loved friends and neighbours for half a century."

G. M. Story

Alexander James Whiteford McNeily published a number of articles in the Newfoundland Quarterly (St John's) between 1901 and 1910; a characteristic essay, "Some old-time anglers," appears in 8 (1908'969), no.3: 17'9619 and no.4: 5'968. He is also the author of "The land of Newfoundland," in Canadian Law Rev. (Toronto), 4 (1905): 539'9648.

Courier (St John's), 10 July 1870. Morning Chronicle (St John's), 26 March 1870. Royal Gazette and Newfoundland Advertiser (St John's), 29 Oct. 1861. DNLB (Cuff et al.). Encyclopedia of Nfld (Smallwood et al.). J. K. Hiller, "A history of Newfoundland, 1874'961901" (phd thesis, Univ. of Cambridge, Eng., 1971). K. J. Kerr, "A social analysis of the members of the Newfoundland House of Assembly, Executive Council and Legislative Council for the period 1855'961914" (ma thesis, Memorial Univ. of Nfld, St John's, 1973). Elinor [Kyte] Senior, "The origin and political activities of the Orange order in Newfoundland, 1863'961890" (ma thesis, Memorial Univ. of Nfld, 1959). Methodist Monthly Greeting (St John's), 15 (1903). Newfoundland men . . . , ed. H. Y. Mott (Concord, N.H., 1894). Newfoundland Quarterly, 11 (1911'9612), no.3: 22 (obit. of McNeily by D. W. Prowse).

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061118:

Left furniture and books and stocks in the will of his aunt Rosina [Whiteford] Goodfellow.

Left $2000 in will of James Goodfellow 6439

Living 
      Sex: F
Parents 
         Father: Isaac McNeily
         Mother: Olivia Whiteford 6439

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